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...which happened, kind of--just with a different anchor. Nearly a year after taking over ABC's second-place evening newscast, Charles Gibson is neck and neck in the ratings with NBC's Brian Williams, and Gibson recently won ABC its first news sweeps month in more than 10 years. Katie Couric, who was supposed to be the agent of change, lags about 2 million viewers behind...
...salaryman has followed the Seibu Lions since he was 8, back when his family lived near the team's stadium in Tokorozawa, a sleepy suburb 40 minutes west of Tokyo by train. Clad in a powder blue Lions jacket, with a Lions towel wrapped around his neck, Koike spends the entire game bobbing like a prizefighter in Seibu's official cheering section, where well-drilled fans in blue and white drum and sing personalized anthems every time a Lion comes to bat. One player is missing though--superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left for the Boston Red Sox this...
...antiwar Federalists had the courage of their convictions, playing a weak hand--they were always a congressional minority--boldly. But their overthrow was a lesson in practical politics. If you stick your neck out too far, it may get broken. Today's Democrats are wise to debate and discuss...
...after the raid; when delivered to the makeshift morgue at Dili's Gido Valadares hospital, it bore the marks of an autopsy-an examination Barros' family say was carried out without their permission. Holes and marks on Barros' clothes suggested he had been wounded in the back of the neck, right buttock and chest. Barros' sister, Francesca da Cruz, speculates that he was hit from behind by bullets fired from a helicopter...
...much I've tried to fix it my whole life... I could write a book about how confusing it is trying to please that woman... and trying to do whatever I can to get her to stop drinking." Lyrics are quoted: "Smile, I'ma blow a hole in your neck...